[Info-vax] Latest TCPIP Services seem irreparably horked...

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In article <4f543b84$0$1541$c3e8da3$f017e9df at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>Simon Clubley wrote:
>
>> So basically, TCP/IP is now been developed on the basis that customers
>> will not be able plug in third party components to replace the HP
>> supplied components.
>
>Correct, and in all fairness, I don't think you could really criticise
>HP for this.  This was in effect way back in the Digital days.
>
>Remember that the competing stacks such as TGV and Wollongong all had
>their own full mail suite with POP servers as well. So people who went
>with those stacks already had those servers which were generally better
>than the one supplied by Dec/Compaq/HP.
>
>So having interoperability between individual components of different
>stacks was never seen as a priority or necessity.

If POP and SMTP are so tightly bound, please tell me why they can both
be run separately.  What if this was a cluster with one node acting as
the SMTP reciever and another node acting as the POP post office???  I
believe this is another TCPIP Services blunder and it needs to be fixed
ASAP!

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